Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-27
ty.five to hundred; in that neighbor-
hood, as near as can approximate 1t

ty.1lve to q hundred; III tnat neIRnDO
. hood, as near as I can approximate
: now.
CROSS.
@. Did you see anybody get for
bits?
A. Yes, sir; one fellow would CON
up and they would give him enough
20 around.
@. Iasked you if you saw anybod
getting four bits?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. For what?
A. To get the dummies" in line:
@. To get dummies" in the line
, Did you see any dummies" get fou
bits?
A. Well, yes sir, in one instance
saw one fellow. I think he said he ha
six dummies around the corner; h
got four bits for himself and for tn
other six. I think it was six he said.
@. Who was the man that said h
had six "dumm es."
A. Idon't know what his name is
He is one OF these all.arcund fellows OF
election day.
Q. Yes sir. Who didlhe get the foul
bits from? --,-s ssssss ~
A, Well, l d Mt want to tell. III,
didn't get it from me, I will say; but
don't want to tell who he got it from.
Mr.. Campbell-That will do, sir.
HON. s. Nj. WHITE
Was the next withess called. he testi
| fed to the fact that he was Informed
and believed that registration would
close on the I'd of last Oci ober. He
said "wherever l went | made it my
business to inquire around concerning
registration to see about how many
there were, as far could find out, my
way of thinking, that were not register
ed. Naturally was interested in hav.
ing all the Democratic voters reg.
,stered and accordingly very
| frequently made mention of the
necessi y of registering by the I'd of
October, because l supposed and it was
generally supposed that the reg stratiou
would finally close at that time. Ia
tact most of us thought it was the law
that it should close Them
Being asked whether he informed
people after the I'd of October that reg
istra tion had closed, he answered.: II
have very distinct recollection that per
sons asked me directly, and that was
inquire of ditectly-by that l mean a
m would come up and say that he had
another party he wanted to register, and
inquired of me wheth he could register.
FAY l have quite distinct recollection
that there was o number Of those sort
of applications; but as there was great
many people running around me ali the
time 1 don't rem mber who they were,
but there wore number Of them know
l uniformly stated to them that while
they could register at any time, they
couldn't vote, they couldn't register for
the purpose of voting in November"
Mr.. White said the first intimation he
had of the continu nee of registration
was on the 2lst of October, when he
saw proof of the Briefly circular. ~
went to see Mr.. Dunsmoor some days
after that, as soon as it had become
known that the Democratic Committee
had notice of this new registration, and
[ said to him, in substauce-I don't
know that I can repeat the exact con.
versation: when are you going to close
this registration 1 said: Now, you
have, after giving public notice all over
the county that your registration would
close on the I'd of October, clandestinely
informed the Republican Comm ttee
that you would register voters if they
would present themselves, and print
their names ON the Register at any time |
up to the date which is mentioned in |
that circular, the 27th.' Aud I spoke |
to him pretty vigorously took Mr..
Charles Prayer in with me, and I said:
Now. want to know whether you are |
G ing to close this thing at the date |
mentioned in that notice or not,
or whether We are going to |
have another postponement of it,
Well, he hesitated; said he !
didn't know positively what he would |
do; that Judge Bruuson had said they
could register up to the day. "Well,"
l sad, "Now. I am going to know right
here before 1 go away" ''that's
certain, propose to find out right here.
You have got no business to carry on
any clandestine work of this kind. You
must let me know. And," I said, 'you
can afford to tell me right now. You
are public officer. This is not a party
affair, this is public affair. The public
have right to know whether they can
vote or not after doing certain acts, and
[ demand right now to know when you
are going to close this thing up"
''Well," he says, 'what do you say?
shall we close it at the end of this time?"
referring TO the 9th of October. I says.
''Yes; all right; let it he so understood
Then he said, ''Yes, it will be so under.
stood" Aud said, "There is to be no
other registration now, So far ss print
ing the Register is concerned?" And he
said, "No." Aud then l went away.
Tnat was I'll the conversation I had with
him at that time. The object of it is
apparent from what said to him. l
wanted t. find out if there was going to
be any registration after that date, or
any third supplement, or second supple.
ment published.
Af'er that I had another con-
, sation with him on ano h r.
topic. l heard that there was som.
question as to the acceptance by the |
County Clerk of the returns of the As
SCISSOR; that he claimed that the As
sessor's deputies had not filed
their official oaths, or qualified
before registering certain men,
and that for that reason he did not in
tend, he the County Clerk did not in.
tend to place upon the Register the |
names of any parties who were register
ed by the Deputy Assessors. under
stood that he was not going to put any
of those parties upon the Register unless |
it appeared that the appointment of the
Deputy who had taken the name and en-.
rolled the voter-unless tha qualifica-
tion appeared on the record in the
County Clerks office. I went to see
him, and talked to him in the Board OF
room. l had opened the